Q ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I.— PEYTEUMA ORBXCUL ARE. Z«. 
Plate DCCCLXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDLXXXIII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 585. 
Rootstock almost woody above, with a deeply-buried fusiform 
fleshy enlargement. Radical leaves on long petioles, lanceolate or 
narrowly elliptical, attenuated or ovate and abrupt at the base, 
serrate-crenate ; stem-leaves numerous, sessile (except the lowest, 
which are similar to the radical ones, but much smaller), strap- 
shaped, acute, nearly entire ; uppermost ones lanceolate-acuminate. 
Heads globular in flower, ovoid in fruit. Bracts ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Calyx-segments broadly lance- 
olate - triangular. Segments of the corolla at length separating 
throughout. Capsule usually 3-celled. 
On chalk downs and in chalk-pits. Local. Not uncommon in 
Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey, and Wilts ; also reported from Kent, 
but not on recent authority ; a specimen was sent to the Botanical 
Sociely of London from Sheffield on the authority of Mr. L. G. 
Lyon, but this station is very improbable. 
England. Perennial. Late Summer. 
Ptootstock with a fleshy tuber about the size of the little finger, 
usually buried 2 or 3 inches below the surface ; above the tuber it 
is contracted, and usually divides at the top into several heads, 
which send up flowering-stems or tufts of leaves. Radical leaves 
variable in form, the petiole longer than the lamina. Stem 3 inches 
to 2 feet high, erect, leafy at the base, the leaves becoming more 
distant and much smaller towards the upper part. Heads \ to 
1 inch long in flower, 1 to 1\ inch in fruit. Mowers deep-blue, 
curved upwards in bud, but the segments at length separating. 
Styles exserted, pubescent, bright-blue, with 3 or more rarely 2 
stigmas. Plant glabrous, or with a few hairs on the margins of the 
petioles, leaves, and bracts. 
Hound-headed Hampton. 
French, Raiponce Orbiculaire. German, Rundk'opfiger Teufehhrallen. 
SPECIES II.— P HYTEUMA SPICATUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCCLXV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDLXXXVI. Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. Gull, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 587. 
Rootstock somew r hat fleshy, with a buried fusiform enlargement. 
Radical leaves on long petioles, ovate or lanceolate, cordate or 
